Paintings of Summer - Joan Lennon

It's been a hot, dry summer.  And so I thought I'd share some paintings from hot, dry summers in the past. 

Edward Atkinson Hornel Summer 1891

Childe Hassam Summer Sunlight (Isles of Shoals) 1892

Mary Cassatt Summertime 1894

Shoen Uemura Firefly 1913

And some rain would really help.  If, by the time you read this*, we're still in need, here's a poem about summer rain to remind you of what it's like.

A drop fell on the apple tree

Another on the roof

A half a dozen kissed the eaves

And made the gables laugh

A few went out to help the brook

That went to help the sea

Myself conjectured, Were they pearls

What necklaces could be!

The dust replaced in hoisted roads

The birds jocoser sung

The sunshine threw his hat away

The orchards spangles hung

The breezes brought dejected lutes

And bathed them in the glee

The East put out a single flag

And signed the fete away

Emily Dickinson 1890

P.S. When you read this, I will be in Jakarta for my son's wedding.  Now that's hot!

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